operation

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That's a very different operation, it's surprising, and it shouldn't be there.

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the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of operation gathered in one view.

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the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"

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a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"

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a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for operation.

noun

the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"

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(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"

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activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"

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a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"

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a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"

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process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

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(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"

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(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"

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the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"

Example sentences

That's a very different operation, it's surprising, and it shouldn't be there.

The next step is to add a heat sink and fan to maintain a temperature gradient for operation longer than 20mins.

Of course, the common man knows it's common sense that there's an inherent need for secrecy in conducting small scale covert operations.

As such, once one is put in, the cost is amortized over 30+ year timelines, and efficient operation is actually strongly considered.

And so it's just common sense that any such broad-based operations that might be perceived as impacting our constitutional rights should be the subject of broad public debate.

The bits produced by this "key oblivious" E=3 signing operation were gibberish, of course... but the RSA implementations weren't checking them, because they were "just padding".

Scammers will just back up, look at their entire operation, and hammer away again with 300 new accounts so all you've accomplished is pissing off customers who want to do business with you.

Where the operation of compiling might fail, I would contrive scripts, functions, routines, and other parameter driven processes of marvellous efficacy and not in common use.

Where relevant, we explain every operation twice, showing the iterative and recursive approaches.

All these data structures are explained first as chunks of data with external functions for the operations; then a second time as objects with methods for operations, once object orientation is introduced in week 5 or 6.

So, there's an overblown police operation, using two helicopters, 5 paddy wagons, AR-15s, dogs, and a forceable takedown of a suspect deemed to be "low-risk", to serve an illegal warrant by a unit that NZ Police themselves describe [1] as "[providing] Police with the means of effectively and more safely responding to and resolving situations in which there is an actual or threatened use of firearms or other weapons against members of the public or Police.